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by verditelabs 4mo ago
There is a large overlap in what we are doing with the medical field as well. A lot of the segmentation methodology and technology we use and adapt originally came out of the medical field for doing things like brain imaging.
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
Most of the evidence so far points towards carbon based ink. I am not sure if any of the scrolls we have scanned show strong evidence of iron gall based ink. I know that there are different types and preparation methods for different carbon
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
> places it in a Stoic context and dates it to the 2nd century _BC_. Emphasis mine.
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
The input is 3d chunks of reconstructed CT data from our scans. I can't remember the specifics but maybe enough voxels for .5mm^3 at a time or so? They're all available for free from https://registry.opendata.aws/v
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
Pherc1667 was quite small and just so happened to have readable ink, so it was easier than I expect most others to be.
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
Yes, it's quite possible for ML to hallucinate ink, though it is on a much more local scale, like predicting a slightly longer stroke, filling in more of a character than is actually in the data, etc. Perhaps enough to change a reading
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
I think it's a case of HN once again butchering the title. I submitted it as the exact title from our page on scrollprize.org, "An _Entire_ Herculaneum Scroll Has Been Read For The First Time", which is IIRC true.
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
Fortunately for anyone wanting to xray lottery tickets, you don't need the IIRC most powerful beamline in the world. A few years ago a Vesuvius Challenge Community member bought a benchtop xray machine for a few grand and scanned pokem
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
I am a computer scientist. I studied CS in university, worked in the semiconductor industry for a while, got started as a participant in the challenge aspect of the Vesuivus Challenge. They were hiring, I sent in an application, interviewed
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
That's a tough one to give a strong estimate of. Some scrolls are easier or harder to unwrap and read for a multitude of different reasons, mostly due to how damaged the scroll was in the eruption, and how easy or not the ink is to rea
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
I am unaware of those fragments in particular. Though we have scanned a dozen or so fragments, mostly to help guide ink detection, since the ink in them is often more visible in visible and/or near IR light, but can be hard to impossib
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
Yes. Sean, who was a co-winner of the 2024 prize, IIRC has no formal background in ML, computer science, AI, etc. He is one of our core researchers and the most productive team member.
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
I am not a papyrologist or a classicist, rather I'm a computer scientist, so my expertise is unfortunately not in _what_ the scrolls say, rather how we get there. That being said I think and hope that there will be a trove of things th
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by verditelabs 4mo ago
I am on the vesuvius challenge team that did the segmentation, unwrapping, and ink detection, so feel free to ask any questions.
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time(scrollprize.org)
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by verditelabs 10mo ago
> Vinland if you're nasty ? It's not controversial that the Norse made it to modern day Newfoundland.
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by verditelabs 10mo ago
Qualcomm has had DSPs in its chips for a long time, providing a lot of NPU-like functionality before the term NPU had been coined. What Qualcomm currently calls its NPUs are just Hexagon DSP cores with specific instructions and abilities fo
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by verditelabs 1y ago
I am on the Vesuvius Challenge team. We came across this press release back in July and were quite impressed! It's great to see other groups using non destructive means to read ancient documents.
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by verditelabs 1y ago
They say they're hiring but I didn't even get an email back about my application and I've been awarded $20k through the vesuvius challenge and have 10 years experience in the exact job they're hiring for so I really don&
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by verditelabs 2y ago
I am an ex Qualcomm employee. We often called ourselves a law firm with a tech problem. QC doesn't actually have more lawyers than engineers, but I'd not be surprised if the legal department got paid more than all the engineers co
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by verditelabs 2y ago
Same, these are all great points that I find as well. LLMs have made me a way more productive programmer, but a lot of that is because I already was an alright programmer and know how to take advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of the
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by verditelabs 2y ago
The NPU is a Hexagon DSP with HVX, Hexagon Vector Extensions, and HMX, Hexagon Matrix Extensions. The core ISA and vector ISAs are pretty well documented and supported by upstream llvm, but AFAIK HMX is not publicly documented. Core ISA + H
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by verditelabs 2y ago
No writeup, but the code is here: https://github.com/SuperOptimizer/supercompiler There's code there to generate unoptimized / optimized pairs via C generators like yarpgen and csmith, then compile, train, in
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by verditelabs 2y ago
I've done some similar LLM compiler work, obviously not on Meta's scale, teaching an LLM to do optimization by feeding an encoder/decoder pairs of -O0 and -O3 code and even on my small scale I managed to get the LLM to spit o
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by verditelabs 3y ago
I think I recognize the author of this from /r/localllama, where plenty of other people are building similar frankenstein rigs. This post only mentions Intel setups, but AMD Epyc Milan and Rome based rigs are also very viable alte
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by verditelabs 3y ago
That's awesome! Thanks for taking the time to reply. I am a young guy - just turned 30 last month - but I exclusively shoot and develop film and have my own mini darkroom. I enjoy the challenge and physicality of it all, plus I already
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by verditelabs 3y ago
I assume that's the same Itek that made lenses for the Corona Spy Satellite program? That's cool as heck. I am just a photographer, but I collect aerial lenses and own 2 Pacific Optical 18" f/3 lenses in 70mm format, ser
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by verditelabs 3y ago
For me, "y'all" has multiple forms "y'all" - explicitly addressing >1 person "y'all" - explicitly addressing 1 person while implicitly addressing >1 people. I might say "how y'all
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by verditelabs 3y ago
I think you're right about the implicit group/family aspect in many cases. If I'm taking to one friend and say "how are y'all doing" then that friend's family or ingroup is certainly implied in the questio
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by verditelabs 3y ago
In my native Texan English, "y'all" can certainly act as a singular polite "you" (EDIT: though it is not terribly common). I often use "Howdy, how y'all doin?" as a polite greeting to people I don&#x2

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